A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
Everything Contains a Thing but you have to understand that thing
I like to build things. I like to do things.
An attitude of gratitude brings great things.
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
There is no such thing as a pretty good omelet.
There are such things as false truths and honest lies.
The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it.
Only tall things cast shadows.
A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
Think of many things, do only one.
Love tells us many things that are not so.
Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?
Don’t be too worried for having too many things unaccomplished. Make a deal; accomplish only one thing; one special thing today. Repeat this tomorrow. It will amaze you how much you’ll get done in a week!
Okay. Some things were made of hope. But not this thing. This thing he was doing, that was made of surrender. He did it anyway. At least when you surrendered, you had time to kiss the people you loved good-bye.
The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.
It was the kind of building that remembered things, deep-down things, things that rode tears into the world, telling them back to anyone old enough or wise enough to know how to listen with their eyes.
Amanda knew she was lucky to have a friend like Laura, somebody who was always there to back her up. It made it easier to be brave, easier to do the right thing.
So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God